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Your Source For The Best In BasketballMon, 14 Mar 2016 23:25:37 +0000hourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6.1By: maverickhttp://www.slamonline.com/media/slam-tv/for-old-times-sake-kevin-garnett/#comment-1923268
Thu, 24 Nov 2011 03:52:22 +0000http://www.slamonline.com/online/?p=147553#comment-1923268People kill me with this KG had just as much help as TD thing. Sure KG played with two all-stars spree and cassell….for two years. And the second one was totally wasted by repeated injuries etc. Anyone who thinks 04-05 cassell, spree were all-stars are dillusional.
So basically ONE season with better supporting cast than TD, and he won the MVP that year. AND was better than Spurs, both in the regular season and the playoffs. What does that say?

And Marbury? He became an all-star AFTER he left for New Jersey. And terrell brandon might have been a star if he wasn’t injured ALL THE TIME. How many healthy seasons did he give KG? how many healthy GAMES for that matter?

And Admiral was good for only TWO seasons TD played with him? Like he wasn’t an NBA all-star in 2000, 01 season? And on top of that, how many of centers KG played with played better than OLD David Robinison. Michael Olowakandi? Blunt?
And how many years did KG play for a hall-of-fame-bound coach like poppovich?

I don’t think anybody will doubt TD’s career was way better than KG’s, and personally I think TD is a better, more valuable player. But that margin is fairly slim. And I most DEFINITELY think things would have been a LOT different if they switched places.

]]>By: Allenphttp://www.slamonline.com/media/slam-tv/for-old-times-sake-kevin-garnett/#comment-1695284
Tue, 26 Jul 2011 14:45:35 +0000http://www.slamonline.com/online/?p=147553#comment-1695284But, to be clear, I LOVE KG AS A PLAYER.
Dude is awesome. I think he’s better than Barkley, to be honest. And it’s questionable about Malone. He’s number three on my power forward list at the lowest, and possibly number 2.
]]>By: Allenphttp://www.slamonline.com/media/slam-tv/for-old-times-sake-kevin-garnett/#comment-1695272
Tue, 26 Jul 2011 14:37:20 +0000http://www.slamonline.com/online/?p=147553#comment-1695272Duncan has always been the leader of his team. He has never not been a leader. He was all-defense for a decade straight!
I love KG, but he’s just more vocal and demonstrative. Duncan leads quietly, kind of like Hakeem used to do back in the day. Everybody knows what’s up with him night in and night out. I’d love to play with both guys if I was a player because both of them are great leaders, just with different styles.
]]>By: vtrobothttp://www.slamonline.com/media/slam-tv/for-old-times-sake-kevin-garnett/#comment-1693643
Mon, 25 Jul 2011 19:03:14 +0000http://www.slamonline.com/online/?p=147553#comment-1693643http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6TnilbMphA
]]>By: Darrenhttp://www.slamonline.com/media/slam-tv/for-old-times-sake-kevin-garnett/#comment-1691630
Sun, 24 Jul 2011 20:55:05 +0000http://www.slamonline.com/online/?p=147553#comment-1691630Just one question: How does Duncan win that many titles if he doesn’t have a drive to win? He’s the best PF ever, hands down. KG is ahead of Malone because he is better in the clutch.
]]>By: CatKillerhttp://www.slamonline.com/media/slam-tv/for-old-times-sake-kevin-garnett/#comment-1691073
Sun, 24 Jul 2011 13:16:16 +0000http://www.slamonline.com/online/?p=147553#comment-1691073Don’t care y’all say KG could in his prime run circles around Duncan in his prime. Nobody got that drive to win and it shows in games. Even if he only scores 5 points and grabs 6 rebounds he finds ways to make his team win. Duncan has nothing on KG when it comes to intangibles like his leadership and motivation
]]>By: DukeFromDeephttp://www.slamonline.com/media/slam-tv/for-old-times-sake-kevin-garnett/#comment-1690455
Sun, 24 Jul 2011 02:35:37 +0000http://www.slamonline.com/online/?p=147553#comment-1690455KG is an old fav of mine too.In my opinion KG is def there with Malone, TD, Barkley as one of the greatest 4’s ever.And possibly the best defencive 4 ever.
]]>By: Waynohttp://www.slamonline.com/media/slam-tv/for-old-times-sake-kevin-garnett/#comment-1689911
Sat, 23 Jul 2011 19:14:55 +0000http://www.slamonline.com/online/?p=147553#comment-1689911Duncan > Malone > Barkley > KG in my opinion…the 3 after Duncan are almost interchangeable though… Duncan really had it all though. Offensively, Defensivley, and intangibles were all there for him. 4 rings help his argument too.
]]>By: washtubhttp://www.slamonline.com/media/slam-tv/for-old-times-sake-kevin-garnett/#comment-1689390
Sat, 23 Jul 2011 09:44:00 +0000http://www.slamonline.com/online/?p=147553#comment-1689390agree with haslem and allenp. the delusion most slamonline posters have for slam poster boys (KG, AI) is sometimes wack beyond words.
]]>By: maxhttp://www.slamonline.com/media/slam-tv/for-old-times-sake-kevin-garnett/#comment-1689369
Sat, 23 Jul 2011 09:12:42 +0000http://www.slamonline.com/online/?p=147553#comment-1689369KG was great but hands down Tim Duncan is the best Power Forward of All Time.The hardware,intangibles,stats,Offense/Defense,clutch,never lost in the finals.Karl Malone second,third is up between KG,McHale,Charles and Dirk I guess.
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Sat, 23 Jul 2011 08:30:38 +0000http://www.slamonline.com/online/?p=147553#comment-1689344All time fav, man crush
]]>By: Allenphttp://www.slamonline.com/media/slam-tv/for-old-times-sake-kevin-garnett/#comment-1688920
Sat, 23 Jul 2011 02:06:44 +0000http://www.slamonline.com/online/?p=147553#comment-1688920Agree with Harlem and that is despite the fact that KG is my third favorite player of all time.
]]>By: Allenphttp://www.slamonline.com/media/slam-tv/for-old-times-sake-kevin-garnett/#comment-1688917
Sat, 23 Jul 2011 02:04:31 +0000http://www.slamonline.com/online/?p=147553#comment-1688917Duncan was more of an offensive force. Everything else is equal. Duncan wins by a hair.
]]>By: Ryanhttp://www.slamonline.com/media/slam-tv/for-old-times-sake-kevin-garnett/#comment-1688814
Sat, 23 Jul 2011 00:31:59 +0000http://www.slamonline.com/online/?p=147553#comment-1688814Imagine Tim Duncan and Kevin Garnett lining up side by side…
]]>By: logueshttp://www.slamonline.com/media/slam-tv/for-old-times-sake-kevin-garnett/#comment-1688759
Fri, 22 Jul 2011 23:46:48 +0000http://www.slamonline.com/online/?p=147553#comment-1688759for the ppl who think kg had plenty of help in minny, please shut up. wally fricken zerbiack(i know thats way wrong) was the best second player he ever had. think about that for a second. wally. and when he had sam and spree both were getting old and and well out of their prime. im from sota and watched twolves games ALL THE TIME, and kg was the whole team. i mean, he led the team in points, rebounds, steals, assists, blocks, minutes. timmy had one of the best centers of all time, along with two of the best european players ever!
]]>By: bigsphttp://www.slamonline.com/media/slam-tv/for-old-times-sake-kevin-garnett/#comment-1688691
Fri, 22 Jul 2011 22:46:04 +0000http://www.slamonline.com/online/?p=147553#comment-1688691i agree with what alot of you are saying about greatest pf of all time but what bout malone. averages of 25 and 10 and 2nd all time in scoring ( even tho the points could be a bit inflated bc of stockton)
]]>By: haslemhttp://www.slamonline.com/media/slam-tv/for-old-times-sake-kevin-garnett/#comment-1688688
Fri, 22 Jul 2011 22:42:28 +0000http://www.slamonline.com/online/?p=147553#comment-1688688I hate all the revisionism that goes on. When Timmy won a title in 2003 against the Nets (also getting past the Shaq/Kobe Lakers in the second round) he won it with David Robinson’s corpse, (averaging 8 points a game for the season) Manu was a rookie (averaging 7 points a game for the season) and Tony Parker was in his second year having a minor breakout season especially for a late first round pick but far removed from the all star level he would attain later on (15 points a game). You call that a stacked team? KG is great, but dismissing Timmy’s achievements as being chalked up to his roster is akin to blasphemy. After all the guy averaged 24 points, 17 rebounds, 5 blocks, 5 assists in that finals series and put up a near quadruple double in the pivotal game 6, (21 point, 20 rebounds, 10 assists, 8 blocked shots). I don’t think KG was ever that clutch and if you would have switched the two players that spurs team would have gone out in the first or second round.
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Fri, 22 Jul 2011 22:12:41 +0000http://www.slamonline.com/online/?p=147553#comment-1688642KG is one of the best big man and player ever…..
]]>By: OneStephttp://www.slamonline.com/media/slam-tv/for-old-times-sake-kevin-garnett/#comment-1688627
Fri, 22 Jul 2011 21:57:56 +0000http://www.slamonline.com/online/?p=147553#comment-1688627Oh good I get to see KG make his post-up travel moves over and over again to music. The guy annoys the hell out of me. He’s good, but so damned unlikeable.
]]>By: Reidzhttp://www.slamonline.com/media/slam-tv/for-old-times-sake-kevin-garnett/#comment-1688624
Fri, 22 Jul 2011 21:51:21 +0000http://www.slamonline.com/online/?p=147553#comment-1688624Probably tops my most wasted talent list together with Lebron during the Cleveland years. (Even though Dwight is quickly getting up there as well). He was just one of the most amazing all round talents the game has seen. Loved him during the Minny days
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Fri, 22 Jul 2011 21:26:34 +0000http://www.slamonline.com/online/?p=147553#comment-1688583He was one of my faves growing up while he was in Minny.

Seriously, what a waste of talent and years spent in Minny.

When you think of all that time he wasted there, it makes LeBron’s decision to go to Miami with Wade/Bosh seem more rational/logical than anything else/

]]>By: Enigmatichttp://www.slamonline.com/media/slam-tv/for-old-times-sake-kevin-garnett/#comment-1688539
Fri, 22 Jul 2011 21:10:45 +0000http://www.slamonline.com/online/?p=147553#comment-1688539@AllDayEveryDay – agree with a lot of what you said, I think Karl Malone is the best PF of all time, but Garnett only averaged 6 assists a game once in his career.
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Fri, 22 Jul 2011 21:03:36 +0000http://www.slamonline.com/online/?p=147553#comment-1688530Best PF of all time in terms of versatility, and IMO best PF of all time period. Had a deadly jump shot, had a nice post game, one of the best big man passers ever (6 asts a game, multiple times, WTF), one of the best defenders of all time, can guard the 3,4,5 positions, was a good weakside help defender too, and was unselfish.

Dirk may be in the conversation of best PF’s ever, only because he surpasses everyone with his otherworldly scoring ability, but dude needs to dominate on the glass and defense to be taken seriously in the GPFOAT discussion

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Fri, 22 Jul 2011 17:30:50 +0000http://www.slamonline.com/online/?p=147553#comment-1688188Whoa, SLAM you already goin “for old times sake” on KG.” Ouch, give my man a couple more years now. Sheed, Barros, Mercer and now KG; lovin the green theme though. Alright, just make Sam Cassell next and we’re decent starting 5…
]]>By: HAMMERhttp://www.slamonline.com/media/slam-tv/for-old-times-sake-kevin-garnett/#comment-1688175
Fri, 22 Jul 2011 17:23:33 +0000http://www.slamonline.com/online/?p=147553#comment-1688175KG really had no help. The only season where he legitamatly had a chance @ the title was ’03-04. That was it. And how u gonna compare a supportin cast of Marbury and Googs to Manu, Tony, Robinson, Horry, Johnson etc..,? There is no comparison whatsoever. Wolves org did not do enuff 4 KG and that’s a well known fact. And that dunk KG had against the Rockets is my fav KG dunk. Just sick!
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Fri, 22 Jul 2011 17:20:09 +0000http://www.slamonline.com/online/?p=147553#comment-1688170Greatest Power Forward of all-time to me. Either him or Barkley.
]]>By: Enigmatichttp://www.slamonline.com/media/slam-tv/for-old-times-sake-kevin-garnett/#comment-1688165
Fri, 22 Jul 2011 17:19:33 +0000http://www.slamonline.com/online/?p=147553#comment-1688165@ Iron Lung – Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili are good because of Tim Duncan?
Manu was already a legend overseas! I don’t buy it.The Sota teams cannot compare to those Spurs teams talent-wise. And the coaching was much better on the SA side.
KG was my favorite player for a while too. Man, I remember the year he put up 23, 13 and 6. Crazy numbers for a power forward. Him and Larry Bird are the only forwards to average at least 20, 10 and 5 for six straight seasons.
And Duncan didn’t abuse KG, they went back and forth. Some nights they’d battle to a standstill, other times one would get the better of the other.
But it wasn’t like Dream vs. Ewing back in the days when Hakeem would make dudes wonder why Ewing was even being put in the same level as him.
Oh, and I love what he did for all the high school kids wanting to go pro, but as a Blue Demons fan I wish he would’ve gone and played at least one season at DePaul 🙂
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Fri, 22 Jul 2011 17:17:35 +0000http://www.slamonline.com/online/?p=147553#comment-1688158I loved KG’s MVP season in 03-04, dude was balling every night like his life was on the line.
]]>By: THE IRON LUNGhttp://www.slamonline.com/media/slam-tv/for-old-times-sake-kevin-garnett/#comment-1688093
Fri, 22 Jul 2011 16:38:31 +0000http://www.slamonline.com/online/?p=147553#comment-1688093People kill me with the kg had no help thing. He had some good teams in sota.timmy played with robinson for two years while he was good, and tony and manu are good because of timmy. Kg played with spreewell, terrell brandon, sam cassell,wally when he was putting up 19 a game, marbury, gugliotta when he was putting up 20 a game plus good role players. so they had good teams, and some seasons they had a better record than the spurs. Just face it KG couldnt win the big one until he went to a stacked team. I love him but its the truth. and duncan use to abuse him.
]]>By: Riggshttp://www.slamonline.com/media/slam-tv/for-old-times-sake-kevin-garnett/#comment-1688092
Fri, 22 Jul 2011 16:38:27 +0000http://www.slamonline.com/online/?p=147553#comment-1688092that video is a big FU to everyone who has ever said that KG changed after he won a chip. No he hasn’t idiots.
]]>By: dfrance21http://www.slamonline.com/media/slam-tv/for-old-times-sake-kevin-garnett/#comment-1688089
Fri, 22 Jul 2011 16:37:19 +0000http://www.slamonline.com/online/?p=147553#comment-1688089And they are kinda hard to compare because while they’re both power forwards, they played completely different styles of basketball. FWIW, I think they are 1a and 1b, out of players I actually got to watch play. No one bring up Joe Schmoe from 1975. lol.
]]>By: dfrance21http://www.slamonline.com/media/slam-tv/for-old-times-sake-kevin-garnett/#comment-1688084
Fri, 22 Jul 2011 16:34:12 +0000http://www.slamonline.com/online/?p=147553#comment-1688084This is a conversation where people get swayed by rings and team success. Head to head you cannot say TD is clearly the better player. KGs 20, 10 and 5 streak was unbelievable. He probably should have been MVP back to back, the year he won it and the year before. Bottom line is, Minny was just a horrible situation for him. If they switched teams, KG would have won just as much as Duncan, if not more. Imagine a coach like Pop coaching KG and really pushing him to be a bit more selfish on the offensive end. It would have been crazy. I’m sure if their roles were reversed people would say that KG is clearly the better of the two.
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Fri, 22 Jul 2011 16:02:54 +0000http://www.slamonline.com/online/?p=147553#comment-1688038I think Marbury needs to take some blame in the TD vs KG conversation. It really does come down to the organization, the turnaround that they both had on their teams was insane. It’s kinda chose your poison and everyone rides TD’s dick now.
]]>By: RSMills5http://www.slamonline.com/media/slam-tv/for-old-times-sake-kevin-garnett/#comment-1688026
Fri, 22 Jul 2011 15:58:21 +0000http://www.slamonline.com/online/?p=147553#comment-1688026I can’t argue that TD isn’t a great player, one of the best ever. BUT KG, along with Webber changed the power forward game! Webb was the first to grab the board and lead the break from the 4 position, and could pass like a guard. KG was the first to really play a great face up game from the 4. He would face up, and could put the ball on the floor and beat you. His fade away is UNSTOPPABLE!!! Falls behind only Rasheed’s from the low post. He is also a helluva mid range shooter, one of the best from the 4/5 position. You can say Duncan is better, but I think you put KG on those SA teams, and they win, and win big! He’s a better help side defender, and a better shooter than TD. If Minnesota would’ve traded him sooner, he probably would have a few more rings.. But oh well… At any rate, you can’t deny KG’s passion, his EXCELLENT D, and his desire to win! Say what you want, but to me he’s the best 4 of all time…
]]>By: addhttp://www.slamonline.com/media/slam-tv/for-old-times-sake-kevin-garnett/#comment-1687999
Fri, 22 Jul 2011 15:44:10 +0000http://www.slamonline.com/online/?p=147553#comment-1687999if marbury stayed with the t-wolves they could have gotten way further than they ended up going in the playoffs
]]>By: lights outhttp://www.slamonline.com/media/slam-tv/for-old-times-sake-kevin-garnett/#comment-1687998
Fri, 22 Jul 2011 15:44:08 +0000http://www.slamonline.com/online/?p=147553#comment-1687998i’d agree that Timmy would come out ahead, but i think it’s still a discussion worth having. damn, KG’s prime stats are unreal. 5 straight years of at least 21, 11, and 6. jesus.
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Fri, 22 Jul 2011 15:37:53 +0000http://www.slamonline.com/online/?p=147553#comment-1687985kg is the best,kg only had sam cassel and sprewell in their 30+,but TD has david,tony,manu at the peak of their career
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Fri, 22 Jul 2011 15:33:12 +0000http://www.slamonline.com/online/?p=147553#comment-1687982I agree Timmy’s the best..BUT….come on, if KG had Tim’s cast/coach/organization, he’d have a lot more hardware, and the conversation would be different. But you know, if if was a fif
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Fri, 22 Jul 2011 15:23:54 +0000http://www.slamonline.com/online/?p=147553#comment-1687972I co-sign TD comment, take away KGs hype and TD is much better.
]]>By: JTaylor21http://www.slamonline.com/media/slam-tv/for-old-times-sake-kevin-garnett/#comment-1687955
Fri, 22 Jul 2011 15:07:18 +0000http://www.slamonline.com/online/?p=147553#comment-1687955Sota KG was by far my fav player and it’s a shame that the wolves wasted one of the great prime years of any player in history. Also, as much as I love KG, dude is not the greatest PF/C of all-time, TD is and it’s not arguable.
]]>By: SpaceJamhttp://www.slamonline.com/media/slam-tv/for-old-times-sake-kevin-garnett/#comment-1687949
Fri, 22 Jul 2011 15:05:23 +0000http://www.slamonline.com/online/?p=147553#comment-1687949First!! Dude Was absolutely ridiculous in his minny days. His MVP season was completely amazing. 24.2 points, 13.9 rebounds, 5 assist 2.2 blocks and 1.5 steals. Dude was freakin amazing. Had a motor unlike anyone else. He is arguably the greatest power forward of all-time
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